So, the other night we toured the hospital where, Lord willing, this child of ours will enter the world. After we left, I told Kevin that, for the first time ever, I am considering a home birth. I’m really not looking forward to being stuck in that place for hours upon hours. As we walked through the hallways on our tour, it all seemed very white and depressing.
I think I’ve decided that I’m going to stay home as long as possible before the delivery. In fact, I even told Kevin that I’d rather risk having the baby in the car, on the way there, than show up too early.
But he didn’t seem too keen on that idea. In fact, I think his exact response was: “Definitely not.”
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You go, Amy! I would definitely encourage you to stall as long as possible, and not just because of the decor. First labours traditionally take a while - though fortunately you're not in hard labour the whole time - and there's definite pressure on the doctor to produce results if things aren't progressing quickly enough. My midwife advised me to wait until labour had really set in in earnest, and bluntly told me that it was an economic question - your insurance contracts with the hospital for the cost of the delivery, but if you're occupying a room for 'too long,' then the hospital staff is going to exert pressure on the doctor to move things along. Hence the trigger-happy doctors rushing to inject pitocin, break the waters, etc., all to rush a first-time labour that doesn't need to be rushed but simply taken at its own pace. I know this may sound a bit over-dramatic, but seriously, Amy, you will know when it's time! As long as you're still quite coherent and can carry on a rational conversation between contractions, you're probably fine...and still hours away from accidentally delivering your child in the car. =)
~Rose
I think the white is supposed to represent clean and bright. The darker colors make things seem, well, darker and not as friendly.
You’ll probably have to go early since Kevin can’t handle a home or car birth!
Actually, white is probably generous. I'd say dirty white, approaching yellow, was more like it.
I think Kevin is funny! Amy, the way you quote him each time is always so amusing.
Your lives are petty and pathetic. 6 digit incomes, no belief in God, but spiritual. Most likely on some kind of anti-depressant. Blog for whatever reason, to remind yourselves that you are important?? sad, so sad.
Erinberry? Is that you?
Re: the above anonymous poster. I have to say that is one of the rudest comment posts I have ever read. Obviously the person hasn't read Amy's blog or they'd know that she is a complete opposite of what they claim she is. All I have to say is... You have nothing better to do with your time than to bounce around to blogs written by complete strangers and post insulting comments? Give me a break... Get a life!
So here's my advice: Have your mom with you! I was determined not to go the hospital too early. As my contractions started I made sure Mike had everything ready, then I sent him to bed. I labored in the tub. I hadn't been in there 20 minutes when my mom stood outside the door and said, "Are you timing those contractions? Because they seem to be coming pretty fast." I assured her that I had been in labor less than two hours and I had a long while to go yet. "Let's time it, just to see." I was three minutes apart. Needless to say my mom encouraged me to pick up the pace and get to the birthing center. That was the LONGEST 10-minute ride of my life. I started pushing less than an hour after we arrived. Next time, I will move faster. But I wouldn't do it any differently. Depending on how far away your hospital is and the time of day (for traffic purposes), you shouldn't need to go until your contractions are three minutes apart if you plan to try natural. (That's from my midwife.)
screw you Sarah...
I think there may be some validity to the negative posting. Think about it for a second, this Amy is worrying about the color of the walls at the hospital. That does seem pretty petty considering the health of the baby is above and beyond all importance. Worrying about the color of the walls basically implies that Amy has no real cares in this world except that of her own little world ultimately. Plenty of money in the bank usual a clear symptom of that kind of petty outlook on unimportant issues like she has mentioned in many of her blogs. Are anti-depressants that far off of the mark considering that white walls in a hospital seems to easily depress this typical American Godless woman we call Amy??
I find it fascinating that these anonymous posters feel so strongly yet are too gutless to use their own names and instead hide behind the anonymous comment capabilities.
It is also interesting to note the only response Anonymous poster #1 had to my post was the oh so eloquent retort, "screw you Sarah." Such stunning rhetoric will obviously do nothing but confirm the fact that they have nothing better to do with their time but post insulting comments on stranger's blogs.
Furthermore, both responses also confirm the lack of knowledge regarding Amy. I stand by what I said before... You don't know Amy. You haven't even read her blog. Get a life.
ohhh, on the contrary.. I do in fact know Amy.. (hehehe)... I do not know you Sarah, but.. you are "fascinated" by my posts, ahh yes, in your own words written so are you condemned.
A life as you put it?
Do you have a "life" of your own so easily "fascinated" by my "lack of knowledge"????
lol...Retort, lovin' that word Lady Princess.
I think you missed the fact Sarah was being sarcastic.
YES, indeed I missed that. Blew right past me, got me, yes... oh yes got me good on that one.
YES YES YES I must agree, indeed to agree so readily do I...
Must agree that I missed that sarcasm, maybe did I not?? no most assuredly I did because it was so stated so it must be true. Yes do not disagree with these happy California lawyers.
Tuckster.... To know me so well, is to be like me? maybe, as we ponder.. To read me so well (at least he thinks) is to reveal Tuckster?
Tuckster, Sarah, and anonymous, maybe all one in the same? Ponder with me fellow bloggers.. Who is to say otherwise?
Blue hospital walls and little white pills and expensive bar fees, all seem so wonderfully important to me now that I have revealed myself!
Amy, I actually agree with you that the dingy-white of the hospital is so depressing. We're going to the hospital at this very happy, exciting time to welcome our children into the world, and yet the hospital's walls slowly contract around us in all their greenish-white oppressiveness. Here I put my whiny "Why???" I think I'm going to take a poster to have Joel put on the wall, because I'm not going to be able to wait very long once labor starts before I'll have to be at the hospital.
~Veronica Campbell
Amy, on second thought Barney Purple would be so much more appropriate. I love the undertone of violet with a hint of perywinkle. Blood stains on the walls aren't as apparent with my favorite shade of choice.. Think about it babe..
~Veronica Campbell
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 17, 2002 | By TINA KELLEY
For Patients, Welcome Relief From 4 Bare Walls
When friends knocked on the door of his hospital room, the young man said, he looked at the photograph of a bright hallway that hung on his wall, and he felt as if he were inviting people into his home.
When the woman lay on her side for a day or two, in too much pain to hold a pen and do the crossword puzzle, she said, she studied the print on the wall across from her hospital bed, thinking about how much she liked the colors and why.
And when another man, on his visits to a hospital treatment room, walked past the abstract rendition of a map of Paris on the wall of a corridor, he said, he thought about how he and his wife had traveled there regularly.
For hospital patients, a blank wall across from a bed can be a menacing presence, a blank canvas for worries and what-if's, and a sentimental poster can be about as welcome as cracker crumbs in a tautly made bed. But at the Rockefeller University Hospital, on the Upper East Side, 25 original pieces of art by well-known artists are hanging in patients' rooms, hallways and examination areas. If everyone is a critic, so far, the critics - nurses, visitors and outpatients - are pretty pleased.
"I like being able to look at something other than the fire drill rules," said Jack Halpern of Park Slope, Brooklyn, who recently spent almost a month in the hospital for psoriasis treatments.
A nonprofit group, RxArt, placed the artwork, which it owns, in February and March. The idea for the project came to the founder of the group, Diane Brown, a former gallery owner, while she was staring at a white ceiling during a CT scan, wishing she could be staring at art by Matthew Ritchie instead.
One piece by Mr. Ritchie, a relief print called "Sea State One," kept Susan Granat Weil company during her recent four-week stay at the hospital, which conducts a variety of medical research projects.
"It has straight lines coming down, things that could be puddles or mass confusion or a nervous breakdown," she said. "It says `hi' in there, and it has chemical symbols. I still would enjoy it if it were plain, without all the lines."
She said she had found the sealike colors soothing, and had played around with the idea of making a reproduction of it in embroidery, on batik cloth.
Mr. Halpern had stayed in the same room earlier, while the 25 pieces of art at Rockefeller were being hung, and he chose "Sea State One" to be placed there.
"I didn't want something too pleasant on the eye," he said. "I wanted something thought-provoking." During his stay he saw rain, water, fish, a bird and the partial names of chemical elements inside the swirling print.
As a former nursing home administrator, he is familiar with the ickier forms of institutional art.
"We would always change the art in my nursing homes," he said. "Ninety-nine percent of them are photos that have nothing to do with the patients' lives. They're hotel-type pictures. They don't want people to steal it, so they put in an old sea scene that must've been a nice picture 100 years ago."
The print in his room reminded him that when he was a little boy, he scribbled once in crayon all over a set of new, empty bookshelves. It was not an unpleasant memory.
Bryon Whitefield, a clerk on the floor where Mr. Halpern and Mrs. Weil stayed, especially liked the map installations by Geraldine Lau, which include views of Paris and the Jersey Shore.
"It was a reflection of city life, and very original work, what you'd usually see in a downtown gallery, not in a hospital," he told a visitor recently.
In a room nearby, a man who gave only his first name, Michael, was finishing up a two-week stay for an H.I.V. study. On a wall was "Hartwig House, Truro," Joel Meyerowitz's photograph of a bright hallway.
"I was staring at it my first day here, and it's a perfect picture for a hospital," he said. "It's a home environment, and I was feeling like this is my bedroom, and people would knock on door, to my one-floor home. It's just not a picture you'd usually see in a hospital." Among the artworks in the hallways, he liked the blue dot, titled "No Title," by Robert Therrien, a screen print of a blue dot on a spiral-bound notebook.
"It's so simple," he said. "A lot of times in hospitals they try so hard to make it upbeat, with copies of strange works that are just drab. A lot of them are of flowers and flowerpots."
Ms. Brown, a private art dealer who ran galleries in Washington and New York, wanted to create a healing environment while supporting contemporary art. Using donated funds, RxArt buys the works in its collection from artists. She hopes to expand the collection, and bring the art to other hospitals.
Kathy Bell, a registered nurse who works with drug abusers, said the artwork made the hospital attractive and made her patients feel respected, healthier, and better about themselves.
She said that after assignments in places with "easy-to-be-with" art, working among pieces by artists like Frank Stella and Louise Nevelson left her feeling "like Dorothy in `The Wizard of Oz,' when everything turns color."
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In reply to the "Barney Purple" comment: I did not post that. Unfortunately my previous comment had to be Anonymous because I wasn't signed into Blogger at the time... But I'm sure Amy figured out that I didn't post about Barney Purple... that's not my color at all. ;)
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